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🧵The moment you say "Article V convention," some people hear "new Constitution."
That's not it. We don't need to replace it.
But we do need to restore it — to close loopholes and fix what Congress and courts have broken over 200 years.
The Founders gave us the way.
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That's not it. We don't need to replace it.
But we do need to restore it — to close loopholes and fix what Congress and courts have broken over 200 years.
The Founders gave us the way.
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2/ They kept the words and changed the meaning.
"Interstate commerce" now reaches your backyard garden.
Agencies violate separation of powers and answer to no one.
They call it a "living Constitution" — it means whatever a judge says.
This is hijacking by deconstruction.
"Interstate commerce" now reaches your backyard garden.
Agencies violate separation of powers and answer to no one.
They call it a "living Constitution" — it means whatever a judge says.
This is hijacking by deconstruction.
3/ The Supreme Court is pushing back on some excesses. Good.
But courts created most of the problem.
Their fixes are partial and reversible the moment the Court changes or gets packed.
We need the structural solution the Founders already provided.
But courts created most of the problem.
Their fixes are partial and reversible the moment the Court changes or gets packed.
We need the structural solution the Founders already provided.
Your doctor says your "cholesterol" is too high.
But 50% of heart attack victims have NORMAL cholesterol.
Here are 7 science-backed ways to actually protect your heart (without statins):🧵
1. Control your Nitric Oxide levels
But 50% of heart attack victims have NORMAL cholesterol.
Here are 7 science-backed ways to actually protect your heart (without statins):🧵
1. Control your Nitric Oxide levels
Nitric oxide is what many call the "longevity molecule."
It relaxes your arteries, protects them from plaque, and keeps your blood pressure stable.
But your levels can drop by 50% as you age.
Here's the most underrated hack to boost naturally (you can literally try it now):
It relaxes your arteries, protects them from plaque, and keeps your blood pressure stable.
But your levels can drop by 50% as you age.
Here's the most underrated hack to boost naturally (you can literally try it now):
2. Stop fearing the number.
A standard panel hides the metrics that actually predict heart disease.
Ask for these instead:
• ApoB
• Triglyceride to HDL ratio
• Small dense LDL particle count
These reveal whether your cholesterol is actually dangerous.
A standard panel hides the metrics that actually predict heart disease.
Ask for these instead:
• ApoB
• Triglyceride to HDL ratio
• Small dense LDL particle count
These reveal whether your cholesterol is actually dangerous.
@SecRubio 1/8 Now THAT is rich Marco...telling the people of Cuba in your little video on of ALL days, Cuban Independence day, that the reason they are "suffering" is due to the corrupt people in charge of their country plundering "billions of dollars", but that nothing has been
2/8 used to help the people. Rich for the reason YOUR boss who sits in ur WH is literally STEALING millions of dollars from U.S. taxpayers, and NOW the DOJ is set to give Trump $1.776 BILLION dollars, which is being STOLEN from U.S. TAXPAYERS, to establish a fund to pay criminal
3/8 defendants of Jan 6th, some of whom BEAT cops, which Trump PARDONED, who felt they "suffered" from DOJ "weaponization" which DID NOT happen! What YOUR administration is doing RIGHT now is called WEAPONIZATION Rubio! Trump himself has BLOCKADED Cuba the past FOUR months, what
1/ A Russian soldier says that he and his comrades were told by their commander that "a single shell is worth more than all your lives". The men were sent on suicidal missions without artillery support, without supplies, and had to scavenge for weapons on the battlefield. ⬇️
2/ In a video explaining his decision to desert from the Russian army's 144th Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade (military unit 11739), 36-year-old Anton Aleksandrovich Shirshin describes his commanders as brutal and corrupt.
3/ He was forced to join the army after being blamed for a traffic accident. The police offered him a choice between imprisonment followed by being conscripted to join the army, or joining the army voluntarily. He chose the latter option.
Hello @JeffBezos, since you question the results of our studies on the unfairness of the US tax system, please allow me to remind you of the main conclusions of our work, the most comprehensive research to date on this issue.
Your claim that the top 1% pays 40% of taxes and the bottom 50% only 3% is misleading:
It captures just one tax – the federal income tax – and ignores all the rest: payroll taxes, state income taxes, sales taxes, excise duties, etc., many of which are regressive.
It captures just one tax – the federal income tax – and ignores all the rest: payroll taxes, state income taxes, sales taxes, excise duties, etc., many of which are regressive.
If one takes a comprehensive view of taxation in the US, here’s the picture that emerges:
All social groups pay broadly the same effective tax rate today – around 25%-30% of income, all taxes included – with billionaires having the lowest tax rate: 24% on average in 2018–20.
gabriel-zucman.eu/files/SaezZucm…
All social groups pay broadly the same effective tax rate today – around 25%-30% of income, all taxes included – with billionaires having the lowest tax rate: 24% on average in 2018–20.
gabriel-zucman.eu/files/SaezZucm…
Managed Deep Agents is now in Private Beta
ICYMI: It’s managed, model-agnostic infra for deep agents you can deploy with a single line of code.
A quick thread on what you get out of the box 🧵
ICYMI: It’s managed, model-agnostic infra for deep agents you can deploy with a single line of code.
A quick thread on what you get out of the box 🧵
A managed harness:
✅ Built on the `deepagents` harness
✅ Durable execution out of the box
✅ Model-agnostic
✅ One-line deploy- no Dockerfile, no infra glue
✅ Built on the `deepagents` harness
✅ Durable execution out of the box
✅ Model-agnostic
✅ One-line deploy- no Dockerfile, no infra glue
Context hub
✅ Prompt
✅ Memory skills
✅ Subagent definitions
…All versioned and saved
Sandboxes:
✅ Default per-thread sandboxes with persistent filesystem
✅ Safe code execution, shell access, file I/O
✅ Auth proxy + snapshotting
✅ Prompt
✅ Memory skills
✅ Subagent definitions
…All versioned and saved
Sandboxes:
✅ Default per-thread sandboxes with persistent filesystem
✅ Safe code execution, shell access, file I/O
✅ Auth proxy + snapshotting
NEW from me
Zohran Mamdani has held multiple visits with a Holocaust-denying sheikh who has claimed Jewish deaths were "exaggerated" and "done by Zionists"
Mamdani recently said at sheikh Fadhel Al-Sahlani’s mosque that "It feels like returning home to be here"
freebeacon.com/democrats/zohr…
Zohran Mamdani has held multiple visits with a Holocaust-denying sheikh who has claimed Jewish deaths were "exaggerated" and "done by Zionists"
Mamdani recently said at sheikh Fadhel Al-Sahlani’s mosque that "It feels like returning home to be here"
freebeacon.com/democrats/zohr…
In January 2006, during an interview with the New York Sun, Al-Sahlani told the paper that the figure of six million Jews killed in the Holocaust "has been exaggerated."
"The numbers which have been mentioned are too much," Al-Sahlani told Sun reporter Russell Berman. "The numbers, the reasons, we have to study more."
You can read the original sun article here
freebeacon.com/wp-content/upl…
"The numbers which have been mentioned are too much," Al-Sahlani told Sun reporter Russell Berman. "The numbers, the reasons, we have to study more."
You can read the original sun article here
freebeacon.com/wp-content/upl…
In April 2006 author Walter Ruby said he didn't trust the Sun's conservative bent and wanted to speak to the sheikh himself about the issue:
"I went to see Al-Sahlani last week predisposed to believe that he might have been treated unfairly by the Sun, or, at least, deserved a chance to set the record straight. Yet his responses to me only deepened the hole he dug for himself in the original interview."
Al-Sahlani cited Nazi apologist David Irving as a source for his Holocaust information — at the time Irving was serving a prison sentence in Austria for Holocaust denial
web.archive.org/web/2008101905…
"I went to see Al-Sahlani last week predisposed to believe that he might have been treated unfairly by the Sun, or, at least, deserved a chance to set the record straight. Yet his responses to me only deepened the hole he dug for himself in the original interview."
Al-Sahlani cited Nazi apologist David Irving as a source for his Holocaust information — at the time Irving was serving a prison sentence in Austria for Holocaust denial
web.archive.org/web/2008101905…
1/ I wrote about Trump's slush fund: "The optics of this are so bad that it’s hard to believe Trump would expose himself to their consequences unless he really needed this deal. The protection it offers must be essential in some way we are as yet unaware of." Now, we're learning about the reasons. joycevance.substack.com/p/almost-as-go…
2/ Continued: "The Supreme Court has already given Trump immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts, but paying taxes, personal business transactions, and a whole host of other activities fall outside of the scope of that protection."
3/Now, we're learning that instinct was correct. The NYT is reporting Trump has liability of up to $100 million in liability from tax audits. Here's his personal lawyer, I mean the acting AG, denying that's true.
Sniper's $SPX 0DTE Tactical Plan for May 21, 2026
SPX: 7411 (-21 gap from 7432)
0DTE IV: 27% (elevated vol) Straddle: 46
Major inflection: 7395 (Very imp.)
NVDA earnings out and stock remains relatively flat. If NVDA stays contained, post earnings vol contraction could become today's real trade, exactly why I’m leaning short vol.
SPX: 7411 (-21 gap from 7432)
0DTE IV: 27% (elevated vol) Straddle: 46
Major inflection: 7395 (Very imp.)
NVDA earnings out and stock remains relatively flat. If NVDA stays contained, post earnings vol contraction could become today's real trade, exactly why I’m leaning short vol.
Also keeping in mind the classic Thursday gap fill fallacy.
Everyone expects an instant gap fill after the overnight move… but Thursdays often trap early traders before the real directional move develops. Patience > prediction.
If SPX Goes Up
Above 7425-7430 → 7445 (Stop below 7420)
Above 7445 → 7460
Above 7460 → 7480-7500
Why: Dealers likely to support upside hedging, lighter liquidity
Everyone expects an instant gap fill after the overnight move… but Thursdays often trap early traders before the real directional move develops. Patience > prediction.
If SPX Goes Up
Above 7425-7430 → 7445 (Stop below 7420)
Above 7445 → 7460
Above 7460 → 7480-7500
Why: Dealers likely to support upside hedging, lighter liquidity
If SPX Goes Down:
Below 7410 → 7395 (Stop new 5-min candle above 7415)
Lose 7395 → 7375
Below 7375 → 7350 - 7340
Why: Weakness pulls toward 7395 (Inflection), Loss of major inflection will make dealers sell aggressively into weakness
Below 7410 → 7395 (Stop new 5-min candle above 7415)
Lose 7395 → 7375
Below 7375 → 7350 - 7340
Why: Weakness pulls toward 7395 (Inflection), Loss of major inflection will make dealers sell aggressively into weakness
AGI has an assembly index.
In assembly theory (Sharma, Czégel, Lachmann, Kempes, Walker & Cronin, Nature 2023), the assembly index a of an object is the minimum number of recursive joining operations required to construct it from a basis set of elementary parts, where each intermediate is reusable once formed.
The framework was developed to distinguish biotic from abiotic matter: empirically, molecules with a ≳ 15 are not produced by undirected chemistry at detectable abundance, and their occurrence is treated as evidence of an underlying selection process a causal history capable of preserving and recombining intermediates.
The index is thus not a measure of static complexity but of contingent depth: the length of the shortest causal chain compatible with the object's existence.
A thread 🧵⬇️
In assembly theory (Sharma, Czégel, Lachmann, Kempes, Walker & Cronin, Nature 2023), the assembly index a of an object is the minimum number of recursive joining operations required to construct it from a basis set of elementary parts, where each intermediate is reusable once formed.
The framework was developed to distinguish biotic from abiotic matter: empirically, molecules with a ≳ 15 are not produced by undirected chemistry at detectable abundance, and their occurrence is treated as evidence of an underlying selection process a causal history capable of preserving and recombining intermediates.
The index is thus not a measure of static complexity but of contingent depth: the length of the shortest causal chain compatible with the object's existence.
A thread 🧵⬇️
2 /
The construction extends naturally to algorithm-space.
Treat the space of learning systems as an assembly space whose elementary operations are formal primitives (differentiable composition, attention, value iteration, policy gradients, in-context conditioning) and whose objects are trainable architectures.
Under this mapping, contemporary frontier systems occupy a regime of high a, reached through an ordered trajectory backpropagation (Rumelhart et al., 1986) → distributed representations → convolutional and recurrent inductive biases → the attention mechanism (Bahdanau et al., 2014) → the transformer (Vaswani et al., 2017) → neural scaling laws (Kaplan et al., 2020; Hoffmann et al., 2022) → RLHF (Christiano et al., 2017; Ouyang et al., 2022) → tool use and extended-context reasoning.
Each transition is conditionally near-zero-probability absent its predecessors. The trajectory is a constraint on reachability.
The construction extends naturally to algorithm-space.
Treat the space of learning systems as an assembly space whose elementary operations are formal primitives (differentiable composition, attention, value iteration, policy gradients, in-context conditioning) and whose objects are trainable architectures.
Under this mapping, contemporary frontier systems occupy a regime of high a, reached through an ordered trajectory backpropagation (Rumelhart et al., 1986) → distributed representations → convolutional and recurrent inductive biases → the attention mechanism (Bahdanau et al., 2014) → the transformer (Vaswani et al., 2017) → neural scaling laws (Kaplan et al., 2020; Hoffmann et al., 2022) → RLHF (Christiano et al., 2017; Ouyang et al., 2022) → tool use and extended-context reasoning.
Each transition is conditionally near-zero-probability absent its predecessors. The trajectory is a constraint on reachability.
3 /
A parallel assembly path governs the physical substrate. Programmable shading hardware was repurposed for general-purpose matrix arithmetic (CUDA, 2007), specialized into tensor cores, and embedded in high-bandwidth interconnect fabrics (NVLink, InfiniBand) capable of maintaining gradient synchrony across 10^4–10^5 accelerators.
Algorithmic and hardware paths are mutually gating: the transformer is computationally inert without dense matmul throughput, and dense matmul throughput is economically unjustified without an architecture that consumes it.
The joint assembly index of the algorithm-hardware pair is therefore strictly greater than either component considered in isolation, and capability gains are bounded by the slower of the two trajectories.
A parallel assembly path governs the physical substrate. Programmable shading hardware was repurposed for general-purpose matrix arithmetic (CUDA, 2007), specialized into tensor cores, and embedded in high-bandwidth interconnect fabrics (NVLink, InfiniBand) capable of maintaining gradient synchrony across 10^4–10^5 accelerators.
Algorithmic and hardware paths are mutually gating: the transformer is computationally inert without dense matmul throughput, and dense matmul throughput is economically unjustified without an architecture that consumes it.
The joint assembly index of the algorithm-hardware pair is therefore strictly greater than either component considered in isolation, and capability gains are bounded by the slower of the two trajectories.
21/5/26 - FACTORY OF DEATH: ERASMUS MC ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS 🧵 1/….
Micha Kat – Brazil 🇧🇷
On one of the last days of 2012 a remarkable piece appeared in the Algemeen Dagblad, one of the biggest newspapers in The Netherlands. The headlines were the most strange and sinister the world has ever seen: In the USA I was compared with Adolf Hitler and How a big step forward in combating bird flu became a nightmare. What was going on here?
In this piece we will disclose the biggest secret in the world’s history of scientific research: how a team of virologists at a university in The Netherlands under the veil of ‘scientific progress’ built viruses with the explicit aim to reduce the worlds population.
The article is basically an interview with prominent Dutch virologist Ron Fouchier. It was the first interview ever published with this Erasmus MC virologist in The Netherlands and the occasion was exactly as sinister as the headlines suggested: Fouchier and his team succeeded in ‘upgrading’ the avian flu-virus H5N1 (the most deadly variant) to being ‘airborne’ and thus transmissible from human to human. They achieved this by transposing this feature (being airborne) from avian flu-virus N7H7 to H5N1, thus creating what in essence is a bioweapon. But this b-word was not in the article. Nor was explained to the Dutch public what was the real significance of this piece of why it was published in the first place. We will reveal this now, 14 years later for the first time: the interview was the deep state-celebration of the first successful gain of function-operation in the world that opened the gates to the construction of a series of weaponized viruses that since made world headlines: MERS, Covid 19, Monkeypox, Ebola, Hanta. SARS is not mentioned because Fouchier and his team worked on upgrading that virus the year before but could not achieve the crucial gain of function-breakthrough. ‘When the gain of function was realised at last, we celebrated by throwing a box of beer on the table’ says Ron Fouchier in the interview. But the reporter of the Algemeen Dagblad faced a peculiar, never-seen-before and unsolvable journalistic problem: how to ‘repack’ a scientific breakthrough to kill the world’s population as something ‘good’ or at least, if that would not be possible, as something that appeared legit of, if that would also be a bridge too far, as something that would not raise suspicions and maybe even lead to the arrest of mr Fouchier and his team? One of the main strategies that is applied is situations like this is: paint the perpetrator as a victim. And that is exactly what the journalist did. ‘I was compared to Hitler’ lamented Fouchier. ‘My daughter was harassed at school’, ‘We needed police protection round our premises’, ‘I received death threads’. Why would all these terrible things have happened if mr Fouchier did something for the benefit of the world? Amidst all the spins and framings the journalist still could not let go of this paramount question: why did you do it? What are the benefits? Fouchier was unable to answer. The journalist scribbled these words on her notepad: We acted out of honest motives only.
Micha Kat – Brazil 🇧🇷
On one of the last days of 2012 a remarkable piece appeared in the Algemeen Dagblad, one of the biggest newspapers in The Netherlands. The headlines were the most strange and sinister the world has ever seen: In the USA I was compared with Adolf Hitler and How a big step forward in combating bird flu became a nightmare. What was going on here?
In this piece we will disclose the biggest secret in the world’s history of scientific research: how a team of virologists at a university in The Netherlands under the veil of ‘scientific progress’ built viruses with the explicit aim to reduce the worlds population.
The article is basically an interview with prominent Dutch virologist Ron Fouchier. It was the first interview ever published with this Erasmus MC virologist in The Netherlands and the occasion was exactly as sinister as the headlines suggested: Fouchier and his team succeeded in ‘upgrading’ the avian flu-virus H5N1 (the most deadly variant) to being ‘airborne’ and thus transmissible from human to human. They achieved this by transposing this feature (being airborne) from avian flu-virus N7H7 to H5N1, thus creating what in essence is a bioweapon. But this b-word was not in the article. Nor was explained to the Dutch public what was the real significance of this piece of why it was published in the first place. We will reveal this now, 14 years later for the first time: the interview was the deep state-celebration of the first successful gain of function-operation in the world that opened the gates to the construction of a series of weaponized viruses that since made world headlines: MERS, Covid 19, Monkeypox, Ebola, Hanta. SARS is not mentioned because Fouchier and his team worked on upgrading that virus the year before but could not achieve the crucial gain of function-breakthrough. ‘When the gain of function was realised at last, we celebrated by throwing a box of beer on the table’ says Ron Fouchier in the interview. But the reporter of the Algemeen Dagblad faced a peculiar, never-seen-before and unsolvable journalistic problem: how to ‘repack’ a scientific breakthrough to kill the world’s population as something ‘good’ or at least, if that would not be possible, as something that appeared legit of, if that would also be a bridge too far, as something that would not raise suspicions and maybe even lead to the arrest of mr Fouchier and his team? One of the main strategies that is applied is situations like this is: paint the perpetrator as a victim. And that is exactly what the journalist did. ‘I was compared to Hitler’ lamented Fouchier. ‘My daughter was harassed at school’, ‘We needed police protection round our premises’, ‘I received death threads’. Why would all these terrible things have happened if mr Fouchier did something for the benefit of the world? Amidst all the spins and framings the journalist still could not let go of this paramount question: why did you do it? What are the benefits? Fouchier was unable to answer. The journalist scribbled these words on her notepad: We acted out of honest motives only.
This is the Pentagon calling
Maybe these ‘honest motives’ were the reason that immediately after this gain of function-breakthrough Dutch government departments and agencies started to receive phone calls from the Pentagon: ‘Give us this virus!’ These phone calls have never been disclosed before but are mentioned in the article, no doubt with Fouchier himself as source. In no time the request of the Pentagon reached the Dutch government itself and lead to immediate panic. What to do? The minister of health, Edith Schippers, came out with an order for ‘total secrecy’ around the Frankenstein-virus. Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Henk Bleker demanded the prohibition of export of the killer virus. The strong pressure from the Pentagon might have been reinforced by something else that Fouchier revealed: the breakthrough was financed by the NIH in the USA. The director there of NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) was Anthony Fauci. Two years after the breakthrough with the avian flu-virus, Fouchier and his team scored another gain of function-victory with MERS. Just like with SARS before and later with SARS-COV-2 this new virus was extracted from bats. From Rotterdam to Hamilton, Montana.
Maybe these ‘honest motives’ were the reason that immediately after this gain of function-breakthrough Dutch government departments and agencies started to receive phone calls from the Pentagon: ‘Give us this virus!’ These phone calls have never been disclosed before but are mentioned in the article, no doubt with Fouchier himself as source. In no time the request of the Pentagon reached the Dutch government itself and lead to immediate panic. What to do? The minister of health, Edith Schippers, came out with an order for ‘total secrecy’ around the Frankenstein-virus. Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Henk Bleker demanded the prohibition of export of the killer virus. The strong pressure from the Pentagon might have been reinforced by something else that Fouchier revealed: the breakthrough was financed by the NIH in the USA. The director there of NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) was Anthony Fauci. Two years after the breakthrough with the avian flu-virus, Fouchier and his team scored another gain of function-victory with MERS. Just like with SARS before and later with SARS-COV-2 this new virus was extracted from bats. From Rotterdam to Hamilton, Montana.
Fast forward to may 2026.
A close ally-virologist of Fouchier and his senior Ab Osterhaus, Vincent Munster, so it is revealed, is under FBI investigation for trying to smuggle ‘undeclared pathogen samples’ into the USA from central Africa. Main candidates are Ebola and Monkeypox. Munster learned the trade at Erasmus MC and wrote his thesis under the godfather of Dutch virology Ab Osterhaus, the supervisor of Ron Fouchier. Munster works as a virologist at Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana together with his Erasmus-educated virologist wife Emmy de Wit. What was the purpose of mr Munster in smuggling this peculiar type of contraband? Was he still acting under the guidance of his masters in Rotterdam at Erasmus MC in preparing a new gain of function-bioweapon? Maybe an American journalist can ask him the same question as was asked to mr Fouchier 14 years earlier: what are the benefits here? Mr Munster most likely would give the same evasive answer: I only act out of honourable motives.
A close ally-virologist of Fouchier and his senior Ab Osterhaus, Vincent Munster, so it is revealed, is under FBI investigation for trying to smuggle ‘undeclared pathogen samples’ into the USA from central Africa. Main candidates are Ebola and Monkeypox. Munster learned the trade at Erasmus MC and wrote his thesis under the godfather of Dutch virology Ab Osterhaus, the supervisor of Ron Fouchier. Munster works as a virologist at Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana together with his Erasmus-educated virologist wife Emmy de Wit. What was the purpose of mr Munster in smuggling this peculiar type of contraband? Was he still acting under the guidance of his masters in Rotterdam at Erasmus MC in preparing a new gain of function-bioweapon? Maybe an American journalist can ask him the same question as was asked to mr Fouchier 14 years earlier: what are the benefits here? Mr Munster most likely would give the same evasive answer: I only act out of honourable motives.
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
“The Hour will not be established until the happiest of people in the world is Luka‘ ibn Luka‘.”
Do you know what “Luka‘ ibn Luka‘” means?
“The Hour will not be established until the happiest of people in the world is Luka‘ ibn Luka‘.”
Do you know what “Luka‘ ibn Luka‘” means?
It refers to a person who is low in character and conduct, not in human worth or physical condition.
It describes someone who is shameless in behavior, lacking dignity, honor, and moral integrity, and not guided by good manners or righteousness.
It describes someone who is shameless in behavior, lacking dignity, honor, and moral integrity, and not guided by good manners or righteousness.
It does not refer to disability, poverty, or appearance. It refers to a decline in values.
